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Saturni Promontorium

Saturni Promontorium a headland in Hispania Tarraconensis, not far from Carthago Nova. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.) It must be the same promontory called Σκομβρασία ἄκρα by Ptolemy (2.6.14). Now Cabo de Palos.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.